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Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2008
9 July 2008
 
Patti A. Reali   Sylvain Fabre   Peter Kjeldsen   Jouni Forsman   Phillip Redman   Michael J. King   Tim Zimmerman   Bettina Tratz-Ryan   Martin Gutberlet   Juan Ignacio Fernandez   Gauri Pavate   Akshay K. Sharma   Elroy Jopling   Adam Daum   Mike McGuire   Andrew Frank   Deborah Kish   Van L. Baker   Amanda Sabia   Sandy Shen   Carolina Milanesi   Joy Yang   Martina Kurth   Jean-Claude Delcroix  

Network service providers continue to focus on cost savings, particularly for operational expenditure, but competitive pressures will make the end-user experience and new services increasingly important. This Hype Cycle identifies the key infrastructure technologies and trends in NSPs' networks.




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Table of Contents


    
 Analysis

    
 What You Need to Know
    
 The Hype Cycle
    
 The Priority Matrix
    
 Off The Hype Cycle
    
 On the Rise

    
 LTE-A
    
 White Spaces
    
 4G Standard
    
 RF over Glass
    
 VoIP Wireless WAN
    
 At the Peak

    
 Next-Generation Service Delivery Platform
    
 802.11r
    
 Femtocells
    
 WiMAX 802.16e-2005
    
 High-Speed Uplink Packet Access
    
 Long-Term Evolution
    
 PBT and T-MPLS
    
 Sliding Into the Trough

    
 Network DVR
    
 Radio Over Fiber
    
 IMS
    
 MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC)
    
 VDSL2
    
 802.11n
    
 Switched Digital Video
    
 Mobile TV Broadcasting
    
 TD-SCDMA
    
 IPTV
    
 Wireline Home Networking (Coaxial and Power Line)
    
 WiMAX 802.16d-2004
    
 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable CPE
    
 Climbing the Slope

    
 FTTx
    
 GMPLS/ASON
    
 Next-Generation Satellite
    
 High-Speed Downlink Packet Access
    
 Interactive TV
    
 Next-Generation Voice
    
 ROADMs
    
 cdma2000 1xEV-DO Rev. A
    
 Carrier Ethernet
    
 Residential VoIP
    
 Entering the Plateau

    
 MPLS Infrastructure
    
 Digital Terrestrial TV
    
 Next-Generation SDH/SONET
    
 Digital TV (Cable, Satellite)
    
 Video on Demand
    
 WDM
    
 Off the Hype Cycle

    
 Fixed-Mobile Convergence
    
 WCDMA and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System
    
 Appendixes

    
 Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels

    
 Recommended Reading


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 Hype Cycle Phases
 

Table 2.  
 Benefit Ratings
 

Table 3.  
 Maturity Levels
 

List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2008
 

Figure 2. 
 Priority Matrix for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2008
 

Figure 3. 
 Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2007
 



Document History:
 
Hype Cycle for Communications Service Provider Infrastructure, 2009
31 July 2009
  
Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2008
9 July 2008
  
Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2007
19 July 2007
  
Hype Cycle for Network Service Provider Infrastructure, 2006
18 July 2006
  




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